Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an archaic manner.
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- adverb In an
archaic manner.
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Examples
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In this rather archaically written biography, marred by ornate, stilted language and the author's reliance on and citation of endlessly extended passages from his great-great-grandfather's autobiography, James Mellon struggles mightily but fails to make his readers care much for or about Thomas Mellon.
Banking On the Future David Nasaw 2011
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Over the years and in recent times, many rabbis have been criticized for helping women to obtain a "Get," Jewish divorce papers which archaically, although steps have been implemented to modernize and circumvent this predicament are granted by the husbands.
Shira Hirschman Weiss: Non-Confrontational Clergy: When Inactions Speak Louder Than Words Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011
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Furthermore, exogamy (or archaically ‘new blood’), mating outside the close kin group is favored for increasing genetic diversity, preventing inbreeding.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Interracial Marriage Rates Going Up 2010
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Over the years and in recent times, many rabbis have been criticized for helping women to obtain a "Get," Jewish divorce papers which archaically, although steps have been implemented to modernize and circumvent this predicament are granted by the husbands.
Shira Hirschman Weiss: Non-Confrontational Clergy: When Inactions Speak Louder Than Words Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011
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Last week, Bartoli revealed her own foray into a second career: a press conference yesterday confirmed that as of 2012, she will replace Riccardo Muti as the artistic director of the Salzburg Pfingstfestspiele, an event most frequently, if archaically, translated as the "Whitsun Festival."
Bartoli's new Whit 2010
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The family is also trying its best to rehab the reputation of an institution most often associated with images of the archaically coiffed child brides freed from Warren Jeff's Texas compound in 2008.
Katy Hall: 'Sister Wives': TLC's Polygamist Family Asks Us To 'Rethink Marriage' 2010
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We make no predictions about iPad sales, but the device surely heralds two things for the overlapping, archaically defined worlds where the FCC's regulatory edict still prevails.
End of the Net Neut Fetish? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2010
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The family is also trying its best to rehab the reputation of an institution most often associated with images of the archaically coiffed child brides freed from Warren Jeff's Texas compound in 2008.
'Sister Wives': TLC's Polygamist Family Asks Us To 'Rethink Marriage' 2010
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We make no predictions about iPad sales, but the device surely heralds two things for the overlapping, archaically defined worlds where the FCC's regulatory edict still prevails.
End of the Net Neut Fetish? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2010
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We make no predictions about iPad sales, but the device surely heralds two things for the overlapping, archaically defined worlds where the FCC's regulatory edict still prevails.
End of the Net Neut Fetish? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2010
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